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Posted 11/6/2013 6:57 PM (GMT 0)
If any of you recall, (I know Susie remembers!)...I was complaining about my PT up here in NH that I started with.  He's the owner of the facility and has another PT working for him who recently graduated....

....and I had watched his style (PT#2, not the owner) since September and I felt more of a kinship.

I bit the bullet, anxiety-riddled, and asked the owner to switch.

Today was day #1 with my NEW PT and I love his style!  He's wonderful.  I am so happy, it's like night and day.  He always kept an eye on me, always gave me feedback, even if he was working on another patient, he never, ever lost sight of me or what I was doing.

He always gave me feedback, he corrected me, and best of all, he knows I want to be TAUGHT as we progress, not just be told what to do.

I feel like he respected my background, and my person.  He was so thorough.

I had FUN, genuine fun!  I was smiling and my eyes must have been big as saucers the whole time.  I felt relaxed, happy, and still felt my butt got handed to me!  I like that.  I drank FOUR bottles of water during our session because we worked so hard.

With the other PT I'd not even need a sip.

Plus it gave me an impressive distraction from worrying about my biopsy results, and I wasn't prepared for that.  Getting that reprieve was comforting.

Ahh, this is good!

M.

Posted 11/6/2013 10:09 PM (GMT 0)
Glad things are working out for you with this new pt. Hope the rest of this week is better for you. Do try to not push to hard on certain exercises until your fully healed.
Prayers.
Posted 11/6/2013 10:18 PM (GMT 0)
Yayy! I'm glad you asked for the switch and I'm glad its working out! The right trainer and PT can make the difference between getting better and staying the same. It's one of the most important relationships you have within the medical community.

Hope it continues! The owner wasn't cross at all, was he?

Linds
Posted 11/6/2013 10:24 PM (GMT 0)
Hey guys!

You're the ones who gave me the courage and pep talk, encouraging me to feel okay about asking to switch over.  I think if I didn't talk it out with you here, I'd still be with the owner and miserable.

I don't think the owner was cross.  Or if he was, he hid it well.

But I'm sure he could sense how whenever I came in to see him, I was usually down, and today for the whole time I was laughing and smiling and making comments about how much fun I was having.

He (PT#2) also looked at what PT#1 was doing with me and said in his opinion, given the length of time, that he would recommend a different approach than what I was doing, and he was just as "surprised" as I was that PT#1 still had me doing the exact same stuff since September.

Plus, when PT#1 gave  me an exercise he told me he "borrowed" from the repertoire of PT#2, he explained it all wrong, because when my new PT had me do it, it was entirely different, and WOW, what a difference.

Thanks everyone for giving me the courage to get out of a relationship that I do not think was healthy or beneficial to me, and into one that I'm feeling very positive about!

M.

Posted 11/6/2013 10:55 PM (GMT 0)
Good for you. I'm glad that you're feeling so much better with your PT.

love and hugs
Loretta
Posted 11/7/2013 3:42 PM (GMT 0)
Great news Merrida, you went with your gut feeling and SUCCESS!!!Really hope this helps you get your strength back.

Take care

Jane
Posted 11/7/2013 5:02 PM (GMT 0)
So glad you bit the bullet and made this change. You know when you are unhappy with any of your medical care it is no different than anything we deal with in life. If you are unhappy try to change whatever is making you unhappy.

Merrida I truly despised a cardiologist that had been seeing me for several years. I would almost make myself sick before my appt rolled around. Then, I started canceling appts to avoid going & this is one dr I did not need to blow off. One day while having my echo done I talked to my tech who was great & had worked for this group for many years. I told him how I felt about this dr and he looked at me & said oh no, you need to like your cardiologist, that is one dr you need to trust & like. I said well I hate leaving the group I have been coming here 10 yrs, he said no problem. He said just switch to one of the other drs, it is done all the time. That is what I did and there were no repercussions either. Since then, I have actually fired two different drs to their face while in the hospital & they thought they were going to care for me, lol. Notice, I said they thought they were going to care for me. My local vet was better than them, lol.

Never settle for second best especially with your health.......Susie
Posted 11/7/2013 5:50 PM (GMT 0)
I think I've often felt afraid to leave one doctor for another, especially in the same practice for what they may write in my chart, labeling me as a difficult patient and potentially making my future care difficult or impossible.

I do tend to worry about that a lot because I'm one of those people who seem to always be needing doctors, procedures, surgeries,....and the last thing I want to do is anger someone who can damage my health or my health records.  That was one of the biggest fears I had,...especially in this age, negative marks or flags on any of my health records.

This was a good lesson for me because it was the very first time ever in my whole life that I had the gumption to bring up changing providers.  It was worse because it was face to face, and worse (IMO) because he was the owner with "all this experience" with a "new graduate" of a PT who has only been with him since May.  I felt like I risked undermining the authority figure.

But you are so right.  These people are hired by us to protect and safeguard our health, and if we don't trust them, we're only hurting ourself.

It took me a few weeks of you guys encouraging me to take this step before I felt I had the courage to do it, and given the positive result, I do feel a lot more positive of doing it again in the future if another provider does not feel like a good fit.

I may still post for a kick in the pants or words of encouragement, but I think what I gained from facing this challenge has made a big difference in me.

Thank you all.

M.

Posted 11/7/2013 7:50 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, there can be negative things or errors written in charts. This is why is it important to always get copies of your records from every dr that treats you. If there is something in the chart that is wrong you can write a note with the correction or whatever is written and ask that your note become a part of your chart. This happens a lot. When I get my copy of records they ask what its for, I say I keep a copy of records for my own file.

When I was in the hospital in March I had an email come to me from the hospital telling me I would be able to view certain medical records from that admission and they gave me a code to do this. I only had so many days to view my records. I am so glad I decided to look, if I had not known better I would have swore I was looking at someone else's chart. Everything was screwed up especially prior surgeries & current meds and past dx's.

A week or so later I had an appt with my cardiologist & I asked the nurse when she came in with her laptop what she could change in my records & told her what I discovered. She was able to go in & correct nearly everything.

Now that you have done this once if you ever need to do it again it will be much easier believe me.I knew the owner would not care because he is a business man & he does not want to lose money from a patient.

Susie
Posted 11/7/2013 8:19 PM (GMT 0)
Now that's a happy ending, loved it.

David
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